PRODUCT: Jam For Inspector Clouseau

Jam in covert gift packaging. Photo courtesy Dept. Of Sweet Diversions.   With popular television franchises like CSI, Law & Order and NCIS, detective culture has finally seeped into specialty food. The perps (actually, they’re the good guys) moved from Europe to Los Angeles to form their artisan jam agency (“a top secret covert organization”).…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cheese Plate With Bacon

A cheese course with bacon. Photo courtesy Castello.   Thanks to Castello, a Danish producer of classic cheeses, for this cheese plate inspiration. The cheese is sliced into thin, carpaccio*-like slivers. For the cheese course, Castello used its Castello Alps Selection Classic, an Alpine-style cheese (the category of semifirm cheeses that includes Appenzeller, Gruyère, Raclette…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Vanilla Milkshake Day & A Spiked Milkshake

[1] Shake Guinness and spiced rum with vanilla ice cream (photo © Hard Rock Cafe). [2] You can make a Grasshopper milkshake with mint ice cream and creme de menthe instead of the Guinness (photo © Sincerely Media | Unsplash).   Get ready for tomorrow, June 20th: National Vanilla Milkshake Day. Here are two spiked…
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